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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1950Vol. XXI, No. 2

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p. 75 · Read in the full issue

Medical Survey Of Pitcairn

Island

DR. T. A. Doran and Miss M. T.

O’Keefe (Medical Superintendent and Theatre Sister of Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva) have gone to Pitcairn Island to carry out a medical survey.

Dr. Doran and Miss O’Keefe left Suva by air for Tahiti and will travel from there to Pitcairn Island by the schooner Huia. They expect to be on the island for about a week, and will return by the same route.

Miss Peggy Lorking, of Hurlstone Park Sydney, will leave by air for Madang, New Guinea, in September where she will marry Mr. Alexander J. Ilobinson.

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